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SAYS ARMAMENTS
MAY PREVENT WAR
Princeton Professor Gives
Divergent View at Con
ference on Peace.
On the day of the departure of the
American delegation for Geneva to at
tend the International Disarmament
Conference, delegates attending the
Seventh Annual Conference on the
Cause and Cure of War, were told by
a student of International relations
that "the maintenance of armaments
may prove to be the surest way to pre
vent war and Insure right.”
The speech by Philip M Brown,
professor of International Relations at
Princeton University, sounded strange
ly out of harmony with those of pre
vious speakers and delegates who havo
contended that armaments breed sus
picion and distrust.
"I do not agree with tbe prevalent
theory that war Is caused by big arma
ments," Prof. Brown declared. This
appears to be only a plausible asser
tion, an unsupported theory, not a fact
that may be proved from a study o.
history. Fires do not come because
of the existence of a fire department.
Says Any Weapon Suffices.
••Reduction of armaments is not
enough to prevent war,” he continued,
• Any weapon wTill suffice, if only sticks
and stones, when men’s sense of justice
is outraged. The maintenance of arma
ments may prove to be the surest v ay
to prevent war and insure right. Weak
ness is an invitation to attack The
nation which wishes to be heard in the
defense of right must do more than
ehake its finger.” ... ..
Prof. Brown said that, while the
world agreed that wars were hideous
and peaceful settlements of disputes
were preferable to settlements by force
the differences of opinion as to rignt
and wrong, the lack of harmony which
arises when nations are aiming for di
ferent goals, was the real root of wars.
Declaring women had a special
mission to perform” ^ bringing
about International understanding which
eventually would bring an end to wars,
Prof. Brown said. “If the women
throughout the world would fight for
the spiritual interpretation of life in
its highest form, in that attitude of
regarding the interests of others, which
makes for sympathy, understanding,
forbearance and love, there would be
small excuse for the existence of hat*
and war.”
Will Irwin Optimistic.
An optimistic ndte relative to the
progress made by civilization toward the
abolition of future wars was sounded
by Will Irwin, nationally known author
and journalist, who followed Prof.
^^ecalling that before 1914 a “peace
meeting” was a small, freakish event,
usually guyed by the newspapers, Mr.
Irwin pointed out that “today such con
ferences and societies as this are meet*
lng hourly in every quarter of the
■world; and both press and politicians
are taking them seriously.”
•'Finally in the League of Nations,
the author said, “'and in the Kellogg
pact the world has shown the will to
experiment. Both these experiments
mav fail. Very weU; try something
else. Political progress goes by sound
experiment, by trial and error. That
urge to experiment is what mostly dis
tinguishes man from ape; it accounts
lor our painful upward progress from
barbarism.” .. . .. .
Returning from a five-month visit to
Europe, where she made a particular
study of the Polish Corridor situation,
Mrs. Rachel Conrad Nason of Hart
lord, Conn., warned her audience that
adjustments must be made in Northern
Europe if war is to be avoided between
Germany and Poland.
Sees Menace to Peace.
•The Polish Corridor is one of the
danger spots for world peace,” declared
Mrs Nason. ‘‘If adjustments are not
made, war eventually will result between
Germany and Poland. Its amelioration,
however, is well within the capacity of
Intelligent statesmen and leaders In
both countries today are eager to find
means of reducing the present agita
tl0James T. Shotwell and Dr. D. F.
Fleming, professor of political science
of Vanderbilt University, were to speak
this afternoon, discussing peace treaties
and the best means of facilitating their
ratification.
This evening delegates divided into
different groups will discuss objectives
of the conference and the program for
the coming year.
Debate Oriental Crisis.
Dr. T. Lyenaga, Japanese teacher and
lecturer of note, and Chih Meng, asso
ciate director of the China Institute in
America, last night presented the Japa
nese and Chinese sides of the Man
churian question.
Each speaker, in fluent English, gave
his nation's side of the question, Chih
Meng declaring Japan had taken to her
self rights that were not hers; that she
had violated treaties and that ’’the Chi
nese people will not submit to foreign
control and China will attempt to re
cover her land and her people.”
The Japanese profressor accused
China of having carried on a boycott
more devastating than warfare and said
“If Japan decides on reprisals, I tremble
at the thought of what international
complications might follow.”
Mrs. F. Louis Slade concluded the
evening’s program with an address on
why the international peace agencies
were unable to effect immediate cessa
tion of hostilities in Asia, declaring the
“peace machinery” had not been or
ganized long enough to bring its powers
into effective use.
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WOMEN PAY HONOR
TO MARY WOOLLEY
900 Attend Dinner in New York
as She Prepares to Sail for
Arms Conference.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January 20—Dr. Mary
E Woolley, president of Mount Holyoke
College, who will go to the Geneva Dis
armament Conference as an accredited
delegate of the United States, was
honored last night by more than 900
women at a dinner at the Hotel Roose
velt.
She told those who came to praise her
that she appreciated deeply the honor
cf being the first woman ever to attend
a world diplomatic conference as an
official spokesman for a major power,
but that she felt, too, a serious respon
sibility.
"I realize,” she said, ‘‘that what would
mean most to you all Is a real achieve
ment at Geneva, and no one longs for
that more ardently than I.
"I have learned that there Is a wide
spread desire in this country for the
substitution of law for war or arbitra
tion for armed force.
"Whether the opproach of the con
ference has intensified th , filing cr
has 6imply made it articulate is Imma
terial. The significant fact is that it
exists and is a force that cannot be dis
regarded.”
Among the prominent women who
lauded Miss Woolley were Dr. Marion
> Edwards Park, president of Bryn Mawr
College; Mrs. A. Barton Hepburn, presi
dent of the Panhellenlc Society; Miss
Anne Morgan, president of the Amerl
,-can Women's Association, and Dr. LU
*J y».r, M. Gllbreth of the National Feder
3jktlom of Business and Professional
^Sjtjnjpa's Oiabfc —.
HAWAIIANS PROFESS ABILITY
TO SOLVE OWN PROBLEMS
Leading Citizens, However, Doubt Ulti
mate Success Unless Form of
Government Is Changed.
John Phillips Marquand, maga
zine writer and author of numerous
books, who is now in Honolulu, pre
sents here the last of three dis
patches on conditions in that city.
BY JOHN PHILLIPS MARQl’AND.
HONOLULU, January'20 (N AN A ).
—When the special session of the Legis
lature was convened here in the old
throne room of Iolani Palace, once the
abode of native kings and queens, the
dusky faces of bygone potentates peered
down from their heavy gold frames
upon the faces of living legislators,
brown, yellow and white.
Despite a rumored request that
flowers were not in order, baskets were
on every desk, and the assembling of
the law-makers seemed more like a
California battle of the roses than one
of the most crucial gatherings ever held
in this historic place.
The scene was typical of an atti
tude toward affairs shared by politician
and electorate. Flowers are a gracious
and ancient custom here. But one sus
pects that too many dubious political
compromises have been covered up by
them.
Yet there was also an undercurrent
of seriousness in evidence. The Ad
vertiser of Honolulu said editorially that
tha-future of Hawaii lies in the hands
of this assembly, and that the assembly
will go down in history either blessed
by the constituency or damned through
the generations.
Jockeying Begins Early.
In view of this solemn pronounce
ment, it was disturbing to hear a rumor
that a proposed bill making the post
of sheriff of the Honolulu police force
appointive rather than elective was
already a subject for political jockeying.
Indeed, numerous leading citizens of
Honolulu whom this writer interviewed
reluctantly entertained a doubt of the
capacity of these politicians and even
of the electorate to gain results under
the present representative form of
government.
But few of these citizens or of the
officials care to be quoted in the light
of the administrative deficiencies made
startlingly obvious by the police work
in the Massie-Fortescue case, and of
the glaring prison deficiencies revealed
by the escape and depredations of two
convicts, one of whom is still at large
after 19 days.
Older men who have lived under the
rule of the monarchy, the republic and
the territory, and have seen difficult
problems solved are Indignant at the
tought that these islands cannot con
tinue to govern themselves as they
have done successfully for a century.
They discuss the exceptional vice
problems of a seaport, a garrison town
and a naval base. They speak of days
when no one locked a door in Honolulu.
Others, however, who have watched
the slow assimilation of new and recent
elements in a complex population, to
gether with the rapid changes of a
growing industrial age bewildering to
the minds of other races, have half
formed doubts. But on the whole, it
is fair to say that most citizens main
tain a faith that Hawaii can meet its
problems.
Dillingham Leads Protest.
Walter F. Dillingham is one of the
strong men of these islands. His busi
ness interests are large and Important.
He is perhaps better known on the
mainland and in Washington than any
other islander.
Owing very largely to Mr. Dilling
ham’s courageous leadership, a com
mittee of the Chamber of Commerce
called on the Governor demanding leg
islation to change conditions in the
police department and in the office of
city and county attorney. The commit
tee said that if changes were not made
the Chamber of Commerce would ap
peal to the National Chamber of Com
merce.
Action taken by the Legislature in its
present special session will demonstrate,
says Mr. Dillingham, whether the con
fidence of the public is well placed.
‘‘Should the Legislature fail to meet
the issue squarely it will add a definite
reason,” according to Mr. Dillingham,.
"why our local affairs should be handled
by a different form of government.
“From the history of this country I
believe we are competent to run our
own business and that a commission
form of government would be most un
fortunate. I am satisfied, however,
that citizens here and on the mainland
will not stand for a government that
does not give protection to its people.”
The question of protection is much
discussed here now. A citizen who has
lived In Honolulu for 50 years says he
sees no startling change in conditions.
Riley H Allen, editor of the Honolulu
Star Bulletin, says that visitors from
abroad are coming and going as freely
as always. But these views are not
shared by the wives of naval officers.
“I do not think,” says one, “that
Honolulu is a safe place for women
whether they are the wives of naval
officers or of civilians. Two wives of
officers have recently been grossly in
sulted by gangs of hoodlums.”
Police Chaos Seen.
A member of the Legislature said to
me today: “The Honolulu police force
is almost non-existent. It is protected
by a useless Civil Service Commission
and it is Impossible to eradicate unde
sirable members. The appointments of
successive political administrations are
mixed together in chaos, and the police
force must be completely reorganized.
So must the office of city and county
attorney. We are going to clean up this ,
mess The situation is largely due to
complaisance and neglect by influential
white men here. The better element is
entirely responsible.”
A. G. M. Robertson, formerly chief
justice of the Supreme Court of Hono- I
lulu, takes a more lenient view of the
police force. He says it has been known !
for inefficiency rather than for graft.
He adds that so far as crimes of vio
lence are concerned statistics should
show' how Honolulu compares with other
cities of similar size and situation. My
impression is that the comparison would
be favorable to Honolulu.
Mayor Wright of Honolulu and Le
Roy Bush and George Dennison, both
of the board of supervisors, agree that
an elective chief of police has been the
basis of difficulties and that an ap
pointive chief will make a great im
provement. Nearly all important offi
cials in this city are white.
"I think it fair to state,” says Dr.
Paul Withington, a leading physician
who was brought up on these islands,
“that our problem is similar to that of
any American community of this size
at this time.”
Judd Called Weak.
Mrs. Gertrude M. Damon, president
of the League of Women Voters and of
the Humane Society, says that official
figures for sex crimes do not represent
the true condition, and that there is a
tendency to minimize and drop such
CflSPS.
There is a general feeling that Gov.
Judd is a weak executive, prone to play
politics. The Governor declined to be
Interviewed, saying that a press of busi
ness prevented. The following statement
was made by Edward M. Irwin, editor
and publisher of the Honolulu Times,
who has long been a resident of Hono
lulu:
“For a hundred years the native Ha
waiians and the whites in Hawaii lived
together in peace and harmony. Crimes
such as rape were almost unheard of.
But we imported a population. There
poured into our land a confusion of
peoples, Chinese, Japanese. Russians,
Portuguese, Spanish, Filipinos and
Koreans.
“Their sons and daughters are Amer
ican citizens by reason of their place
of birth, but in large part they have
not only failed to absorb the ideals
and traditions of America, but have
cast aside those of their own ancestors.
They call themselves Americans and
insist on all privileges of American
citizenship while refusing to assume
its responsibilities, and they are rap
idly becoming the dominant factor In
politics.
Most Law-Abiding.
“The more substantial element of the
community, particularly the white,
whose roots are in the soil of Hawaii,
and the Hawalians, to whose ancestors
this land once belonged, are for the
most part law-abiding and abhor such
crimes as have recently shocked the
Nation.
"Now they are awake, but it is a
question if they have not awakened
too late. They can and will cure the
present illness, but can they build up
a healthy body out of the material
they have to work with? There is a
limit to the capacity of the melting
pot.”
E. White Sutton, treasurer of the
Honolulu Bar Association, says that
the commission form of government
has been in the back of the minds of
many here I believe that the present
situation will be cleared up for a year
or so, but, with the growing Oriental
population, the future is in doubt.
(Copyrlaht. 1932. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc.)
WRIT THREATENED
BY DEFENSE COUNSEL
IN FORTESCUE CASE
(Continued From First Page.)
the suggestion that martial law be
declared In Hawaii was analagous to
the Hawaiian legislators petitioning
President Hoover to declare martial law
In Kentucky because of mine strikes in
that State.
“As a son of Kentucky,” he concluded,
"I now ask them to let us mind our
own business and we will let them mind
theirs.”
In pointing out that his grandfather
came from Kentucky, Senator Rice said
that five members of the Senate came
from Kentucky families.
Rev. Stephen L. Desha, sr., venerable
Senator, added that his father, John
Rollin Langhem Desha, once was
governor of that State.
Resolution Stirs Anger.
The resolution of the Kentucky Legis
lature. which aroused the Ire of
Hawaiian Senators, urged President
Hoover to use his authority to obtain
conviction of the remaining four men
accused of assaulting Mrs. Thomas
Massle, to try and obtain the release of
Mrs. Massie’s mother, husband and two
Navy men accused of slaying one of
the young woman’s suspected assailants,
and falling this, to declare martial law
in the territory.
Senator Jarrett declared that rather
than berate the Kentucky Legislature,
the Hawaiian Senators should sym
pathize with the Kentucky lawmakers.
“We are to blame for the many
wrong Impressions,” he said. “There
was a tragedy here that every decent
citizen abhors, but our officers went out
and did the best that they could to
round up the culprits.
“The Legislature of Kentucky is to be
excused, for some of the most ignorant
people in the country came from Ken
tucky and other States in the South.
"That resolution was passed because*
the people of Kentucky don't know the
situation in Hawaii. We should say a
prayer for the Kentucky legislators and
not condemn them.”
"People in Glass House*.”
Referring to conditions In Kentucky,
the veteran Rice commented that "peo
ple who live in glass houses should not
throw stones.”
"This ” he said, "Is a little speech
about keeping your shirt on. He that
ha’h not sinned should throw the first
stone, or people that live in glass
houses should not throw stones or
something like that.”
He pictured Hawaii’s loyalty to the
United States during the World War as
one reason why the territory should be
given the same consideration as a State
when things go wrong.
During tne war, he continued, Fran
cis Brown, a member of this Senate,
went to France. I was told I was too
old—that I should raise food at home.
Some of our boys died at ths froqt.
warm iww inn 11M kmm tana
AH RICHARDSON
Leaves Capital Tomorrow to
Assist in Probe of Hawaii
Crime Conditions.
Charles Edward Stewart, adminis
trative assistant to the Attorney Gen
eral, has been appointed to aid Seth
W. Richardson, Assistant Attorney
General. In the Department of Justice
investigation of law enforcement In
Hawaii.
Mr. Stewart will leave here tomorrow
for the Pacific Coast, where he will
sail January 29 for Honolulu.
Attorney General Mitchell last week
assigned Richardson to take charge
of the Inquiry, which was ordered by
the Senate following the recent crime
outbreak in the Island "paradise.”
Richardson has been making a pre
liminary study of reports received by
the Navy and Interior Departments,
preparatory to leaving for the islands.
His Investigation will cover all phases
of law administration in Hawaii, with
special reference to the disturbances
which were climaxed by the arrest on
murder charges of a naval lieutenant,
his mother-in-law and two enlisted men
of the Navy.
Stewart has been an administrative
assistant at the Department of Justice
since 1914. He is attached to the office
of Assistant Attorney General Sisson.
History Repeats Itself.
MONTREAL UP).—Speaking of his
tory repeating itself, police report a 1932
edition of Rip Van Wlnkls in Ernest
Lemay of Springfield, Mass. Notified
by alarmed hotel clerks that Lemay
had been sleeping three days, they took
him to a hospital where as far as is
known he still Is asleep.
to the United 8tates and have lived
under the laws of the Federal Govern
ment. Now to have one State say
we should have martial law is
unreasonable.”
The grand Jury In special session
yesterday indicted James Pikipala, for
j mer policeman, for mans:aughter as the
i result of the fatal shooting of Miguel
I Barabas of a naval transport.
Miguel was shot while posses were
| searching for Daniel Lyman, escaped
murderer, January 2. Lyman is still at
large.
His escape from Oahu Prison added
to the tension resulting from the series
of major crimes in Honolulu and led
to criticism of the administration of
the prison, culminating in the resigna
tion of the warden, who Is high ter
ihqiu fltvdcfc* ^
MAY HALT PUTT
Delay of Week or Months Ex
pected in Starting Repara
tions Study.
(Continued From First Page.)_
It will be merely a meeting of experts,
it is said, to arrange an extension of
the German reparations moratorium
from June 30 until December 15, the
date on which the first war debt pay
ments to the United States fall due
after the expiration of the Hoover
moratorium.
The French and German elections
will be held this Spring and the Amer
ican next November. The real repara
tions conference will be summoned, ac
cording to the present Anglo-French
plan, in November, immediately after
the American elections.
Vote Occupies Laval s Mind.
Meanwhile the disarmament confer
ence will have taken place and the
great American experiment of the emer
gency credit corporation to cure the
world depression will be well under way.
The essential factors in determining
the foregoing decisions seem to have
been the French refusal to grant
Germany any extension of the repar
ations moratorium unless this is ac
companied by a simultaneous war
debts moratorium, and the disinclina
tion of the United States to consider
an extension of the war debts mora
torium until after the American elec
tions.
Premier Pierre Laval’s government
in France, which soon will undergo the
test of a vote of confidence in the
Chamber of Deputies, is preoccupied
with the imminence of French elections
and is doubtless relieved that it will be
able to escape for the present the re
sponsibility of having to take any far
reaching reparations decision.
France May Call in Gold.
Meanwhile there are signs that
France intends to bring home from
New York and London its ear-marked
gold and a considerable part of its
dollar and pound balances, taking care,
however, not to upset the exchange
markets by any brusque movements.
The shipment from New York in 10
consignments of some $120,000,000 be
longing to the Bank of France seems
already to have been arranged. Dol
lar balances totaling perhaps $450,000,
000 more will doubtless be only very
gradually withdrawn as market condi
tions permit.* The Bank of France and
the Federal Reserve seem to be in com
plete agreement on this policy.
It is recognized that the maintenance
of these fairly heavy French balances
in the United’States now is apparently
doing more harm than good to Franco
Amerlcan relations, so that the sooner
they are repatriated the better both
countries will be pleased. The Laval
government and the Bank of France
have been under strong political pres
sure here for some weeks to take this
step.
French Feeling Depression.
M. Laval is accused in some quarters
of having played fast and loose with
France’s resources In the last few
months by letting Germany off with
$80,000,000, lending the Reichsbank
$25,000,000, advancing Great Britain
first $125,000,000 and then $200,000,000,
lending Hungary $14,500,000 and leav
ing in the United States about
$660,000,000.
The French people are feeling the
world depression more and more. They
fear that a crisis is approaching in
Franco-German relations. Well in
formed French financial 'circles think
that there is a good chance that the
American $2,000,000,000 emergency
credit plan may really mark the end
of the depression, if its psychological
effects are not nullified by some new
European or Asiatic crisis.
Plan Held Bold Move.
They think, however, that it Is a
bold move. The dally New York dis
patches of the well known American
economist, Henry Parker Willis, to one
of the most read financial papers of
France, have insisted on the inflation
ist character of this new American
plan and caused a deep impression
throughout Europe.
Also Senator David A. Reed's recent
statement about large French balances
were misinterpreted in general press
dispatches from Washington to the ef
fect that the United States might re
duce all the European war debts except
the French have created an unpleas
ant impression in Paris.
In a more general way the French
inclination to bring home foreign bal
ances seems to be in harmony with the
present phase of the depression wherein
not France alone, but every country
seems to tend to shut itself in with all
its available assets and let the storm
blow by.
(Copyright, 1932.)
POSTPONEMENT IMPOSSIBLE.
Complete Delay in Settlement Held
Improbable by Diplomats Here.
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.
A complete postponement of the
Reparations Conference is, in the opin
ion of well-informed foreign diplomats
in Washington, impossible.
Germany Is compelled to oppose such
a move. It Is true that as far as
France, Great Britain and Italy are
concerned, there can be no disadvan
tage in postponing the Lausanne Con
ference, because these nations need not
make any payments to the United
States before next December. Ger
many must, however, make important
payments on July 15, and unless some
definite arrangements regarding the
postponement of these payments are
made before that date, Germany is
running the risk of facing a situation
as bad, if not worse, than the one she
faced last Summer, when President
Hoover thought it imperative to pro
duce his intergovernmental debt holi
day.
Consequently, If Germany’s creditor
powers come to an agreement to post
pone the Lausanne conference because
it does not suit their convenience, the
German government expects them to
make some new arrangements in the
course of this month, whereby Ger
many can be reassured that 6he will
not be called to pay her reparations
indebtedness after the end of the
Hoover moratorium.
In accordance with the Young plan
Germany would be called to pay in 12
monthly installments after July 1 the
sum of $446,000,000, of which $226,000,
ooo represents unconditional payments
and $220,000,000 represents conditional
Davments. ibis amount, the Germans
maintain, cannot be found by their
government and in order to avoid a
new catastrophe in Germany, some
kind of assurance must be given them
that they will not be called to begin
making these payments.
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Had Cause for Anger
BRACO DE PRATA, Portugal UP).—
Knocked down by a passenger tram
while superintending traffic, the station
master let the train pass Wean over
him then Jumped up and gave the
engineer a verbal lacing for disregarding
signals. .. .
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League Economic Experts
Hold Protective Levies of
U. S. Should Be Cut.
By the Associated Press.
GENEVA, January 20—The League
of Nation’s Economic Committee sug
gested last night that tariffs were an
obstacle to the payment of international
debts and if the United States wants
to collect war debts it would be ad
visable to lower the protective tariff.
Such nationalist measures as tariffs
merely prolong and aggravate the pres
ent economic crisis, the committee said
in a report to the League's Council.
“Eith°r the creditor countries must
lower their barriers against imports
from the debtor countries,” the ex
perts added, "or the prospects for re
covering their debts will be reduced.”
Situation Growing Worse.
Reviewing the financial troubles that
rose to the surface last July, the com
mittee’s report asserted that the “sit
uation has grown worse daily.”
“One after another, nearly all the
European countries have taken drastic
measures to restrict their imports as
far as possible and increase exports.
They have been highly successful in
the first part of this program, but failed
to Increase exports.
“We are forced to the conclusion that
the general result of national measures
to cope with the effects of the crisis
is almost inevitably to prolong and seri
ously to aggravate the crisis.”
The report recommended that the
countries which were soundest finan
cially and were creditors should favor
increasing the exports of debtor coun
tries so that the debtors would be
able to pay.
Debts Dominate Relations.
“There Is one essential conclusion
which has particular weight In the
present circumstances, namely that the
economic relations of the different
countries are dominated to an extent
hitherto unknown by the problem of
international debts of all kinds, the
burden of which has been increasing
conversely to a fall in prices.
“In theory, a country can not pay
its debts otherwise than by exporting
gold, or obtaining fresh credits, or ex
porting goods. The first means is pre
cluded by the smallness of reserves held
by most debtor countries.
“A complete loss of confidence Is
paralyzing the international operation
of credit so that until confidence is
restored the export of goods is the only
means whereby debtor countries can
meet their engagements. These coun
tries must therefore have a favorable
trade balance, and the greater the vol
ume of their debts the greater that
favorable balance must be.
“Such a position would not be In
compatible with the interests of the
creditor countries; on the contrary, it
would give them a guarantee for the,
payment of debts to them. But under
the pressure of circumstances extra
European and European creditor coun
tries are following a general tendency
to set up even higher barriers to im
ports from abroad.”
GERMANY RAISES BARRIERS.
Emergency Decree Aimed at Danish
and Dutch Dairy Products.
BERLIN, January 20 (jp.—Ger
many’s tariff barriers were raLscd yes
terday by an emergency decree designed
to obstruct dumping of goods by coun
tries with depreciated currencies or
or those discriminating against German
exports.
The decree, signed by President von
Hindenburg, principally affects Danish
and Dutch agricultural and dairy
produce. Some quarters said the meas
ure came a year too late, because it had
long been clear that other nations
would resist increased importations of
German-made goods.
The first step was to raise duties on
butter from 50 marks to 100 marks per
100 kilograms for quantities exceeding
certain contingents provided for under
existing treaties. The same duties were
raised to 170 marks on butter from
such countries as Canada, Australia and
Poland, with which Germany has no
commercial treaties.
Deflated Nations Compensated.
Butter from countries with depre
ciated currencies, like Great Britain and
others who have departed from the
gold standard, was subjected to a com
pensatory duty of 15 per cent ad va
lorem or 36 marks per 100 kilograms.
The mark is now listed at about 24 cents.
The decree reads as follows:
"The government is authorized in
case of urgent necessity to Impose ad
ditional compensatory duties on mer
chandise imported from countries whose
currency has sunk below the gold
parity, or which have no commercial
treaty with Germany, or which treat
goods from Germany less favorably than
from other countries.
"The extra duties may remain in
suspense about six months if with
such countries commercial treaties have
begun or are pending. The government
may wholly or partly relinquish such
extra duties on any one class of goods.’’
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Has Arctic Bridge System.
WINNIPEG (JP).—Spare moments of
Mgr. A. Turquetil, spiritual adviser to
7,000 Eskimos of the Arctic Circle,
brought forth a new bridge system. "If
I have the first bid I go high. If some
one else wants it he will have to go
higher and then I double,” is the way
he explains it.
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According to the ancient Peruvians
there was not a beast or bird on earth
whose shape or image did not shine in
the sky as stars.
Dynamite May Reopen Case
POLICEMAN E. C. HELMS, second precinct, is shown with the 17 sticks
of dynamite found in the basement of the garage at which Leroy Brady,
convicted of manslaughter in the death of one of the three persons killed
in the Seat Pleasant bombing of January 1, 1930, formerly was employed
as an automobile mechanic. _—Star Stag Photo.
HOARD OF DYNAMITE
MAY REVIVE BRADY
BOMBING CHARGES
(Continued From First Page.)
cut and bruised about the head, face
and body.
Both Leroy and Herman were charged
with first-degree murder after an in
vestigation by Prince Georges County
authorities, assisted by Baltimore de
tectives. Leroy was tried at Rockville,
Md., but the jury was unable to agree
on a verdict.
About a year later, he was tried at
Annapolis. Md., and was convicted of
manslaughter. Judge Robert Moss sen
tenced him to 10 years in the Maryland
Penitentiary. The charges against I
Herman subsequently were nolle
prossed.
While the law does not permit a
person to be tried twice for the same
offense, two first-degree murder
charges still stand against Leroy. He
stood trial only in the death of Naomi,
and two other indictments also charge
him with murdering Dorothy and Sam
uel. Under the Maryland law. however,
both he and Herman could be charged
with the murder of Naomi’s unborn
child.
Baltimore police were asked to con
front Leroy with the discovery of the
dynamite and question him regarding it.
-inspector Frank S. W. Burke, chief
of the Washington Detective Bureau,
said that since the bombing did not
occur in the District, his only action
would be to notify Prince Georges
County authorities of the discovery of
the dynamite.
If they wish to reopen the case,
he said, he would send them the dyna
mite as evidence. Should they decide
to let the case stand as it is. however,
the dynamite would be turned over to
the District for use in routine blast
ing work.
GUNMEN jNVADE HOME
AND KILL EX-CONVICT
Victim Believed Slain for ‘‘Talk
ing”—Assailants Pose as
Police Officers.
By the Associated Press.
ROCKFORD, 111.. January 20.—Jack
De Marco, 38, reputed gangster, was
shot five times and killed in lys home
here last night by three men who
posed as police officers.
De Marco had just been released
from Leavenworth Penitentiary, where
he had been sentenced last February,
along with about 20 other defendants,
in a liquor conspiracy case at Free
port, 111. Police said they believed he
was killed because he had “talked”
while serving his prison term.
His wife, four children and four
friends attending a "homecoming”
party for him were forced into a bed
room by the three men before
De Marco was slain. Mrs. De Marco
said she did not recognize the gunmen,
but believed her husband had.
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BAIL WAGE SLASH
PARLEY POSTPONED
Action Taken to Enable Ex
ecutives to Collect More
Data Supporting Plea.
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, January 20.—The sixth
session of the negotiations between rail
way presidents and their organized em
ployes was postponed this morning to
enable the executives to collect more
data in support of their plea for a 10
per cent wage reduction.
The union leaders yesterday told the
railroad presidents that if they wanted
the employes to give "careful consider
ation” to financial arguments for the
wage reduction, it would be advisable
for them to present "a written compila
tion of what they regarded as important
statistics.”
The presidents said they would have
the data compiled and yesterday's
meeting broke up early to enable them
to start on the work. This morning,
their information wras still incomplete
and at the president's request the con
ference was deferred.
The new statistics backing up the
argument for a voluntary wage cut for
one year were expected to deal mainly
with the needs of the railroads to meet
fixed charges and maintain credit.
David B. Robertson, leader of the
union delegation, made it clear yester
day that this was what labor would
like to know about.
The claim of inadequate return and
talk of the value of railroad properties
was classed by Robertson as "useless
argument,” and he added that labor
“could not permit” the comparison of
the standard of living of today with
that of 1913.
CZECH IMPORTS HIT
New Curb on Foreign Exchange
to Cut Shipments Sharply.
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, January
20 (JP).—Czechoslovakian imports will
be very sharply restricted by a new
government measure which provides
that foreigners shipping goods into the
country must show they are being paid
with foreign exchange furnished by the
Czechoslovakian National Bank, with
the approval of a special commission
of the finance minister.
Practically no manufactured goods
are exempt from the order.
Guards Are Without Mercy,
Convict Tells Probe.
Bribery Claimed.
By the Associated Press.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, January 20.—A
system of alleged arbitrary justice
meted out to Ohio Penitentiary con
victs by prison guards was described
before a State Senate Investigating
committee yesterday by George Bently.
a convict who has served 11 years of
a 15-year sentence for bank robber.
‘‘A guard's rights in treatment of
prisoners are anything that he thinks
is right. If a guard says you have
done something, you have done It,
that's all,” he summarized.
The committee, inquiring into charges
of penal cruelties also obtained a S4.000
appropriation from the State to hire
detectives to investigate charges that
large sums of money were being ex
pended to release convicts.
Miss Leona M. Esch. secretary of the
Cleveland Association for Criminal Jus
tice, testified before the committee last
week that she was offered $25,000 to
effect the release of a Cleveland mur
derer, Anis Coursey.
Bently was reluctant to testify, but
when his reserves were broken down
he talked steadily for two hours.
Previous investigations, he said, had
never remedied conditions and that 19
prisoners who testified in the 1916 in
vestigation were sent to the Lima Hos
pital for Criminal Insane.
"You can’t get away from more trou
ble here if conditions continue as they
are.” he declared passionately. He said
that Warden Preston C. Thomas "has
lost his usefulness and is costing the
State money every day he is kept.”
Bently said the death of Bobby Hunt,
who burned to death in his cell, could
have been prevented. He said that
Hunt had lost his mind because of close
confinement and bad quarters and de
liberately tore his mattress to shreds
and fired It in hope of being sent to
a hospital, where he would be allowed
to bathe.
Bently said he called the guard’s at
tention to Hunt’s torn mattress and
told him of his intentions. The guard,
he said, did nothing, saying, “Let him
bum himself up if he wants to.”
When Capt. John Hall finally un
locked the door tc the blazing cell,
Bently testified, he kicked Hunt over
I when he collapsed.
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IN WALDORF-ASTORIA
Bold Thieves Invade Lobby—Jew
els Taken From Home of John
D.'s Grandnephew.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January 20.—Two jewel
robberies, one Involving $40,000 and
the other $500, last night sent detec
I tives scurrying into the abodes of
wealth.
The larger theft was some time be
fore daybreak in luxurious “Peacock
Alley” of the new Waldorf-Astoria, a
j daring thief smashing a showcase lock
I and escaping with all he could carry.
The relatively small robbery was in
! the Park avenue home of William A.
j Rockefeller, grandnephew of John D.
Rockefeller. It was disclosed by the
police.
Rockefeller reported a jade ring and
a necklace, valued together at $500,
missing from a bureau drawer. They
were the property of Mrs. Rockefeller,
the former Mrs. Mary Ball Boyer, a
widow of Detroit.
The Waldorf-Astoria robbery was de
scribed by police as extremely daring.
The gems, owned by Cecil Patridge of
London, who has a shop several blocks
north of the hotel, were in a large show
case placed conspicuously In the lobby.
The theft was discovered by an em
ploye. Charles Fox. when he arrived at
10:30 a.m. yesterday, to arrange the
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